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Every good pop song has an emotional core, but every once in a while a track comes along that stings a little harder than the average studio cut does. This can definitely be said for Mattia Pironti’s “Don’t Stand a Chance,” a vocal-driven power ballad with a bustling beat that doesn’t back down for anything, […]
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Strings as soft as silk form a delicate, colorful harmony as “The Legendary Fist of Takinawa,” one of nine songs found of Jeremy Rice’s Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa, takes shape before us, but there’s a cloud of hesitation that follows its reverberating warmth. The fragile landscape is quickly shattered with the appearance […]
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URL: www.chrismardinimusic.com In his debut single “Retrospective Outlook,” teenage up and comer Chris Mardini delivers a multilayered melodic treat inside of a mere three minutes and change. Driven by a stadium-quaking bassline and a cutting lead vocal from Mardini himself, “Retrospective Outlook” is a very ambitious composition for any singer to undertake, and yet this […]
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Grinding guitars assault us at the start of “Stuck in Your Way” and don’t stop thrashing us through the deluge of distortion that forms “Suffering in Silence,” “I Never Forget,” “Nothing Left to Sell” and the title cut in The Unbroken’s Human Crown, a fresh slab of metallic thunder currently out everywhere independent heavy music is […]
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One second they’re slinking around in the background like a thief in the night, the next they’re in our face and punishing any melodic element that dare enter their path with a forceful grind as evocative as any of the harmonies surrounding it are. Grooves the size of skyscrapers are everywhere we look, but they’re […]
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A cathartic strum that is as freeing a sound as you’ll hear on a new album this year stokes the first flames of a burning-hot melody in “This Moment On,” the first song that we hear on Dave Vargo’s new album Spaces in Between. It’s simple strumming and it’s easily one of the most evocative and […]
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A cathartic strum that is as freeing a sound as you’ll hear on a new album this year stokes the first flames of a burning-hot melody in “This Moment On,” the first song that we hear on Dave Vargo’s new album Spaces in Between. It’s simple strumming and it’s easily one of the most evocative and […]
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In his latest album, titled Welcome to the Edge Times, Jon Patrick Walker gets back to basics and explores his depth as a lyricist in a way that he never has before, and to describe the results of his efforts as quite sterling would be an understatement to say the least. In songs like the title […]
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A skipping beat, rustic guitar strings and a glowing vocal harmony filtered through a fuzzy reservoir of noise come together to forge “A Blessing I Can’t Earn,” one of the more upbeat moments in Oh My Darlin’, the new record from Streaking in Tongues, but as simple and unfanciful as this particularly evocative ballad is, […]
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2019 has produced a lot more success for rap artists than it has rock bands, but in the all-new record from ATL-based up and comers Lesibu Grand, old fashioned guitar melodies get the long-overdue makeover that they truly deserve. Titled The Legend of Miranda, Lesibu Grand’s debut EP is a mixture of groove-driven rock that […]
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